Fiestas in Javea

Posted by: Steve Nott 11 months ago

June is the month of the start of many fiestas in Spain. We have the Moors & Christians celebrations in Moraira. A colourful display of costumes, light, sound and fireworks. Javea also has the food festivals, this weekend, 16th June, along the new Avenida Agusta and this week see the start of San Juan. Visit the Bonfires of San Juan (Hogueras de San Juan) celebrate the coming of the summer solstice around bonfires that cleanse and purify. These fiestas are based on capenters and farming communities. In 1928 the association called Alicante Atracción was created to encourage tourism to the city. With this aim in mind, the Town Hall gave them the authority to organize the first hogueras de San Juan festivities on an official basis.

Within a few years, there were more than thirty Hogueras, and in 1932 the maximum representation of the Festivity was established, Bellesa del Foc (The Beauty Queen of Fire).

There are now 90 hogueras are set up in the city of Alicante, and there are more than ten thousand direct participants in and around the Alicante and Valencia regions.

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